As said in a number of our other articles, almost all web hosting companies provide with at least a few email addresses which can be setup. This means that, for example, you owned the domain example.com, then you could have the email address [email protected] making your online presence much more professional.
If you like the sound of this concept, then it is important to think about how many email accounts you will need and want to have setup.
As well as email accounts, you can also setup an email forwarder which will forward emails sent from one address to another. Email forwarding is probably best explained with an example, so again, you own the domain example.com and you have an account setup called [email protected], just as before. A forwarder with the address [email protected] will mean that any emails sent to [email protected] will now be forwarded onto john’s inbox, whereas the [email protected] address does not have an inbox as such.